Wild Oats

The Crazy Oats have already been through several transitions since starting in 1990. The music group started with Eben Brooks (electric guitar, vocals, bodhr? n, songwriting), Allison Lonsdale (electric guitar, vocals), Enrique Acosta (percussion, vocals), Fawn Patton (electric guitar, vocals), and Laurie Flieder (flute). These music artists distributed a common curiosity about the Culture for Innovative Anachronism, and fulfilled at an SCA event in Pomona, CA. This lineup performed jointly for about 2 yrs, then split. The group re-formed, keeping Eben Brooks and Allison Lonsdale, who had been joined up with by Perry Dockins (percussion, vocals), Martin Brooks (no regards to Eben; vocals), Rachel Amov (fiddle), and Merisa Bissinger (flute). Nevertheless, this lineup just performed together for just one show, and disbanded in 1992. The music group re-formed once again in past due 1993, using the come back of Eben Brooks and Allison Lonsdale as well as the addition of Craig Kozeluh (vocals, bone fragments, doumbek, didjeridu, bodhr? n, additional percussion, songwriting). Marc Biagi (vocals, woodwinds) became a member of in early 1994, with Suzie Cavaness (vocals), Katie Weatherup (vocals, doumbek), and Wolf Klauschie (vocals, didjeridu, saz, gusle) all arriving in middle-1995. Klauschie experienced ideas about adding his assortment of uncommon instruments towards the band’s audio, which drew him into carrying out. More changes adopted in 1996, when Cavaness remaining to go to Tahoe. After that Lonsdale departed in 1997, and was changed by Laura Kate Barrett (vocals, bodhr? n, songwriting). By 1999, Marc Biagi also remaining to consider up a profession in tone of voice performing. He was changed briefly by Melissa McConnell (woodwinds); nevertheless, she remaining after beginning her personal business. Luckily, the Crazy Oats obtained Liz Hostetter (vocals, recorders, pennywhistles, flute) in 1999, which brought a woodwind participant back again to the music group. Brooks’ first device was a acoustic guitar, which he started playing in 1980, but he says he didn’t become proficient until 1990. He was a pianist from 1983-1991, until a move triggered him to reduce usage of the piano. He previously some formal operatic teaching like a bass and lessons in piano, tone of voice, arrangement, and structure. Still, he feels that, generally, he was self-taught. Prior to the Crazy Oats, he is at senior high school chorus and musical theatre, and he was an associate of the folk music group just after senior high school. He credits his mom, also a vocalist, and his 1st girlfriend with presenting him to Celtic music. Katie Weatherup started with clarinet, playing it from 1985-1993, but says wryly of herself, “Mercifully, I ceased.” A college bandmember from primary through senior high school, she added musical theatre in senior high school aswell. Though she’s taken tone of voice lessons, she as well considers herself mainly self-taught. Her fascination with Celtic music started in 1994, when close friends in college released her towards the SCA. Though he previously saxophone and accordion lessons as a youngster, Craig Kozeluh considers his 1st instrument to become your guitar. He performed in college music group in junior high, and is at both a rock-band and musical theatre during senior high school. He proceeded to go into percussion when he got a drum occur 1992 and added the bone fragments and other types of drums in 1994, soon after signing up for the music group. He’s self-taught in every percussion equipment. He became thinking about Celtic music as the result of signing up for the Crazy Oats. As opposed to performers whose first device was piano or electric guitar, Wolf Klauschie’s initial was a saz. He had taken that up in 1975, added dijeridu in 1991, and provides continuing adding eclectic equipment since, teaching himself to try out them. Klaushie was attracted into Celtic music because Craig Kozeluh is normally his kid, and Klauschie wished to then add of his uncommon instruments towards the Crazy Oats’ audio. Furthermore to adding vocals towards the Crazy Oats, Laura Kate Barrett is normally noted being a poet and songwriter, having constructed “The Selkie Queen,” a ballad that’s extremely popular at research fiction and illusion conventions. Liz Hostetter offers taken tone of voice lessons, piano, and traditional guitar; nevertheless, woodwinds are her 1st and longest-running concentrate. Like many in the group, fascination with the SCA led her to execute with the Crazy Oats. Preferred Oats venues consist of Twiggs Tea and Espresso in NORTH PARK, CA, as well as the semi-annual SCA Potrero Battle in Potrero, CA. They possess performed at many places around NORTH PARK, including Lestat’s Coffeehouse, Claire de Lune, JavaBar, Backyard Café, and Thomas Paine’s Coffeehouse, aswell as at Comic-Con International. The music group continues to be awarded the SCA L’honneur de la Chançon as well as the Royal Reputation of Quality (both Kingdom of Caid honours). Their music in addition has been contained in the documentary video about the SCA OPERATING towards the Fantasy. Their music “Reflection” is came into into the Tracks Inspired by Books competition, which is definitely sponsored with the SIBL Task (http://www.siblproject.org).